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Bringing the 4lb Caged lower back from the Dead?
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<blockquote data-quote="MalcolmV8" data-source="post: 15042421" data-attributes="member: 8854"><p>I agree on keeping the caged lower for sure. When a 3.4 or 4.0 breaks a stock caged lower is it breaking right at the threads we try and take them apart when we disassemble them? I ask because a guy sent me a pic of his broken there and he had a 2.9 just like me. I can see the stress of speeding up and down stressing those threads or even the bushings, that makes sense. Just like what I see on my 2.9, crushing those bushings.</p><p></p><p>However snapping the crank or trashing the oil pump though only seems to happen once the cage goes away which seems to imply it's side to side deflection of the crank. Just my observation, I have no data or testing to back that up.</p><p></p><p>The person above was saying removing the cage is not a big issue, it's removing the bushings that's causing an issue. Humm I don't know about that. Ford could have easily put bushings in the pulley setup directly off the balancer with no cage but they went to a lot of trouble to have a caged setup that prevents any side to side deflection of the crank and that I think is key.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MalcolmV8, post: 15042421, member: 8854"] I agree on keeping the caged lower for sure. When a 3.4 or 4.0 breaks a stock caged lower is it breaking right at the threads we try and take them apart when we disassemble them? I ask because a guy sent me a pic of his broken there and he had a 2.9 just like me. I can see the stress of speeding up and down stressing those threads or even the bushings, that makes sense. Just like what I see on my 2.9, crushing those bushings. However snapping the crank or trashing the oil pump though only seems to happen once the cage goes away which seems to imply it's side to side deflection of the crank. Just my observation, I have no data or testing to back that up. The person above was saying removing the cage is not a big issue, it's removing the bushings that's causing an issue. Humm I don't know about that. Ford could have easily put bushings in the pulley setup directly off the balancer with no cage but they went to a lot of trouble to have a caged setup that prevents any side to side deflection of the crank and that I think is key. [/QUOTE]
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